Rita Vanbever

Rita Vanbever is Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and is Research Director of the Belgian Federal Research Council at the Louvain Drug Research Institute at UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium. She received a Pharmacist Degree in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences for a thesis on “Skin Electroporation for Transdermal Drug Delivery” in 1997, both from UCLouvain. In 1997-1998, she was a Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. Since 1998, she leads research on pulmonary drug delivery at UCLouvain. Her research interests include the formulation of inhalation dry powders, the study of the pulmonary fate of actives, the use of pulmonary vaccination to fight respiratory infections and lung cancer and formulation strategies to sustain drug release within the lungs. She has authored more than 85 original peer-reviewed articles, reviews, editorials or book chapters and is inventor in several patent applications.